James,
Thanks... that did it.  Guess I've been running on NT
too much lately.

Regards,

Gary Boylels


-----Original Message-----
From: James Shanks [mailto:James_Shanks AT TIVOLI DOT COM]
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 8:53 AM
To: NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Automatic Action on AIX.


Usually, automatic actions are passed to ovactiond to run, though you can
configure nvevents to run them.
If you are using ovactiond, then try ending your action command with "&" so
that it runs in the background.
That may give you a more parallel execution.

James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support



"Boyles, Gary P" <gary.p.boyles AT INTEL DOT COM> on 03/15/99 07:44:36 PM

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Subject:  Automatic Action on AIX.





I have an AIX system, with NetView V4.1 running.  I've run across a problem
with
the "automatic action" for interface up/down, and I'd like to know whether
this is
normal or not.

My problem is this... I have setup automatic actions for interface-up and
interface-down
(I fire off a perl-program).  This seems to work fine for one interface,
but
if I try to run
more than one at a time... they get processed one-at-a-time -- in sequence.

NetView on NT V5.1 doesn't do this... if there are 15 interfaces coming
up... it fires
off 15 perl-scripts.

My question is... is this normal, or not.

Thanks.

Gary Boyles